Archive for October, 2008

If I Wanted To Become A Failure

Tweet“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are [...]

Invaluable Fragments of Time

Tweet“All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been, and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. If I was ever actuated by ambition its highest and warmest aspiration reached no further than the [...]

A Couple of Random Pictures

TweetI regret that I didn’t get out more this past Thanksgiving weekend. We were out at a country fair most of Saturday, and while there we: watched horse-jumping went on rides let the kids try to win carnival games (my son won a guitar seconds after I told him that these games are rigged and [...]

Stay Busy…Or Else

Tweet“Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not [...]

Education Is…

Tweet“…to be at home in all lands and all ages; to count Nature as a familiar acquaintance and Art an intimate friend; to gain a standard for the appreciation of other men’s work and the criticism of one’s own; to carry the keys of the world’s library in one’s pocket, and feel its resources behind [...]

Ten Pointers

Tweet1. Be yourself: cultivate desirable qualities. 2. Be alert: look for opportunities to express yourself. 3. Be positive: determine your goal and the route to it. 4. Be systematic: take one step at a time. Tweet

The Most Beautiful Thing

Tweet“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” -Albert Einstein See more motivational quotes Tweet